How does sleep help my brain and body?
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How does sleep help my brain and body?
You spend about a third of your life lying still with your eyes shut, doing apparently nothing. It looks like the laziest thing a body can do. Plot twist: sleep is one of the busiest, most useful things your brain and body ever pull off. The work just happens behind the scenes, while the lights are off.
Think of your brain as a workshop that runs all day. While you're awake, it's wonderfully productive — but it also gets messy. Tiny leftover bits of chemical "waste" pile up between the brain cells, like sawdust and crumpled paper building up on a busy workbench. By evening, the workshop is cluttered, and that cluttered feeling is part of what we call being tired.
